Are Yours Scared Of You?
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Hey. I’m just curious if other peoples CPD’s are still scared of them. Whenever I walk up to my tank, as soon as they hear my footsteps they all hide behind the floating Elodia and stay there. If I move round to the side of the tank where they are hiding, they all dart off in the opposite direction.
Yet when i’m sat on my sofa, at my desk or in bed a few metres away from the tank they all quite happily swim around all areas. Anyone have the same problem? Also, is there anything I can do to make them chill out around me a bit more? Thanks!Jimbo this same thing has been bugging me for ages. Mine were in a small quarantine tank for two weeks when i bought them. They were extremly nervous and didnt come out much even with the room light off and me sitting ten foof away.
I then placed them in a 140litre tank which is 2ft wide and 2ft deep, they were like another species altogether, bold,confident and didnt even flinch if i pressed my nose up against the glass. This tank held various tetras and pencilfish and some floating plants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvGe9O52ruM
You have seen my shed (fish-house) and i have just moved the CPD’s into a tank of their own with the hope of breeding them at last.. As soon as they went in they have hid at the back and will not come out even for bloodworm or flake, they wait until the food reaches the back before eating.
I think it may be something about feeling exposed?? maybe in the wild they live in huge shoals of hundreds or even thousands? after all, they must be near the bottom of the foodchain in their natural waters, and the fish we are keeping are essentially wild or f1 generation.
I am going to experiment with large shoals against small, when or if i get any fry.Hey. Funnily enough, when I first bought my first 2 batches they were in my Rio 125 and I didn’t have this problem. They didn’t seem bothered by my presence at all. Maybe it’s the size of the tank they’re in and them feeling unable to swim away anywhere?
Then again the CPD’s in a Nano Cube on the counter at Maidenhead in Stockport seemed completely oblivious to humans. Whereabouts in Cheshire are you from ste1200?
After posting my last message iv been out to the fishroom and my celestials are spawning all over the tank
:lol: :wink: iv got it all on video and will post a link later..that blows my theory out of the water lol.
Im in Runcorn (Cheshire) Near both Liverpool and Manchester..@Jimbo wrote:
Sorry, I was meant to post that in the Behaviour forum. D’oh!
Moved… :wink:
– Atlantis Child
i also had the same problem took a while for them to settle in but they seem happy now chase after food as soon as it hits the waters surface
chris
I’ve had my CPD for a couple weeks now and they are still scared and hide behind plants. I have a group of 5 in 10gallon.
For what it’s worth: I got a group of 8 Galaxies/CPDs several months ago. Through a series of unfortunate events, only one has survived. (It was an awful couple of weeks.)
They (and the remaining one) consistently hid in the foliage at the back of the 10gal tank; I rarely saw any of them. I moved three Zebra Danios and a couple of Pygmy Corydoras into the tank to keep the CPD company. She still hid at the back of the tank; I rarely saw her.
About six weeks ago I added four more Zebra Danios, even though I was concerned that they might chase the CPD the way they tend to chase each other.
Well! What a difference. My little CPD was obviously just waiting for the party to begin. She’s often out and about and yes, occasionally being chased by the ZDs. But her colour is excellent, and she often tags along behind one of the smaller ZDs, indulging in her own chasing from time-to-time.
I’m thinking that there must be some sort of minimum level of local fish activity in the neighbourhood to make the CPD feel comfortable in their surroundings. I actually ran into an article a while ago that mentioned that ZDs are sometimes used this way — to provide a “this space is safe” level of activity to draw shy fish out into the open. Sorry, I can’t find the article now.
Gosh she’s pretty — red fins and white speckles.
Hrynkiw
I have 6 CPDs in a 10g (I like living dangerously, lol), and they are very shy as well. However, my “dominant” male (the one who pushes every one around, but that’s okay, because he’s the prettiest) is very outgoing, and will come up to the glass to see if I’m about the feed them. He actually has a calming influence on one of my extremely shy females (she’s the smallest in the tank); if he’s near her, she’s much more outgoing.
My first group of cpd were wild caught and very timid.
But my tank raised cpd are as bold as brass!
Dennis
I can definitely confirm one theory.
I ordered some in a few weeks back(captive bred), finally got them today.
I put the 6 of them in a 30 gallon tank with about 80 Cherry Shrimp and a hundred snails, sparsely planted with some duck weed floating on the surface.
The tank is filtered with an air driven under gravel filter.
The Danios were very shy, hiding at the slightest movement, under a small cluster of Anubias.
Around 1800hrs I turned off the lights, 24 watt flourescent, and immediately they became much more active, exploring the entirety of the tank, mostly near the bottom, but sometime venturing up into mid water and even near the surface.
I turned the light on again and they immediately became shy and skittish again.
By the way, they absolutely love Cherry Shrimp, even while the light was on they were curious over the shrimp, and chasing down the smaller shrimp for food.
now that the lights are dimmed the shrimp are fortunate to have good tactile senses to avoid capture, or I might not have any shrimp soon.
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